How to format your references using the Array citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Array. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

[1]

Bruneau BG. The developmental genetics of congenital heart disease. Nature 2008;451:943–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Mani RG, Kriisa A. Magneto-transport characteristics of a 2D electron system driven to negative magneto-conductivity by microwave photoexcitation. Sci Rep 2013;3:3478.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Llopart A, Elwyn S, Coyne JA. Pigmentation and mate choice in Drosophila. Nature 2002;419:360; discussion 360.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Keppler F, Harper DB, Greule M, Ott U, Sattler T, Schöler HF, et al. Chloromethane release from carbonaceous meteorite affords new insight into Mars lander findings. Sci Rep 2014;4:7010.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

[1]

Jain RK, Triandis HC, Weick CW. Managing Research, Development, and Innovation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

St. John JC, editor. Mitochondrial DNA, Mitochondria, Disease and Stem Cells. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Axelsen HB, Glück R, Kaarsgaard R. A Classical Propositional Logic for Reasoning About Reversible Logic Circuits. In: Väänänen J, Hirvonen Å, de Queiroz R, editors. Logic, Language, Information, and Computation: 23rd International Workshop, WoLLIC 2016, Puebla, Mexico, August 16-19th, 2016. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2016, p. 52–67.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Array.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Produce from the World’s First Underground Urban Farm is About to Hit Shelves. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/produce-worlds-first-underground-urban-farm-about-hit-shelves/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

[1]

Government Accountability Office. NASA Chief Information Officer: Opportunities to Strengthen Information Resources Management. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Lowry LA. Creative Aging in Senior Centers: A Grounded Theory Study. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2017.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

[1]

Williams J. Classic Words, Fresh Looks. New York Times 2016:BR4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Array
ISSN (print)	2590-0056
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